What Sort Of World Do We Live In?

It's a funny question I suppose, but one we'd all do well to keep asking ourselves.  Superficially we seem to live in a generally benign state where the government only wants what's best for us and most people are happy to accept that premise.  The government wants to help us and smooth life's difficulties with job-hunting, preventing homelessness, ensuring we eat our 5-a-day, lose weight, stop smoking and drinking, tide us over if we fall on hard times, cure us if we are ill and generally act as benefactor.  It says.

I've just caught up with this article which was published in Games Monitor while I was offline earlier this month.  It concerns security measures being taken for Olympics 2012 which include the construction of an 11 mile, 5,000 volt electric fence, topped  with 900 daylight & night vision surveillance cameras spaced at 55-yard  intervals.

"A new genre of military futurology has emerged which owes as much to  apocalyptic Hollywood movies as it does to the cold war tradition of  ‘scenario planning. Often outlandish and bizarre in its prophecies, and  always dystopian, this new military futurism sees threats to the western  way of life emanating not only from rogue states, weapons of mass  destruction and terrorism but also from resurgent nationalism, conflicts  over dwindling resources, migration, disease, organised crime, abrupt  climate change and the emergence of failed cities where social disorder is rife.

"Other security measures to be implemented for London 2012 will include facial and iris recognition, finger-print and hand recognition, guards with attack dogs and search dogs. New software is planned to integrate all of London's CCTV cameras, and will have the capability to follow you through the city. A scheme to search people and vehicles will include machines capable of looking through your clothing. The Air Force will deploy its Reaper pilot-less drone aircraft, which will carry laser-guided bombs and missiles including the Hellfire air-to-ground weapon. While on the Thames, the Royal Navy will deploy its new £1 billion Daring class Type 45 destroyer. These are also to be fitted with laser-guided missile systems able to shoot down a target the size of a cricket ball.

"The Olympic Act 2006, which sets out various laws relating to the Olympics, gives the right of forced entry into private property to remove unauthorised advertising or protest banners.  ... the right of forced entry is extended outside the police force to staff contracted to the ODA.

"... security measures for the London Olympics will include the nationwide use of Section 44 of the Terrorism Act, allowing police stop and search without suspicion. The London Olympics and its security does not exist in isolation but in a continuum of increasing state surveillance and security hysteria."

Take a look at this article too: The Police are considering the forcible chemical sedation of suspects.  "The Federation is currently undertaking work to formulate a strategy which we intend to lead to recognition and acceptance of excited delirious syndrome by the British medical profession."
Are you feeling safer yet or can you feel the noose tightening?  When has any government voluntarily relinquished power and control once gained?  Oh, grandma, what big teeth you have!

Cross-posted from Calling England

What Sort Of World Do We Live In?

Sovereign Debt Implosion

All the front pages of the papers this morning are examining Brown's unintended revelation that if anyone's bigoted, it's him.  Mandelson, Harman, Johnson and other Labour spinners have been out in force making excuses for his comments in a damage-limitation exercise which is going nowhere.  I've only one more thing to add: people are quoting other 'off-mic' moments such as John Major's "eurosceptic bastards" or Bush's "yo Blair".  The fact is that none of the instances cited can be compared to Brown's - of all those mentioned he is the only one who insults an ordinary, decent voter and reveals his contempt for the British public.

Tonight is the third and last of the Leaders' Debates and will concentrate on the economy - supposedly Brown's strength where his intelligence and fiscal competence will shine.  I doubt it.  In the last forty-eight hours Greece has been downgraded to junk status, Portugal to A- and Spain to AA.  Investors are now fleeing Italy so can Ireland be far behind?  Britain can't be shielded from events in the eurozone and I'm only surprised that carpet-baggers have held off from attacking Sterling for so long.  British banks have £25bn exposure to  Greece and Portugal but £75bn to Spain so while Germany drags its heels and its MPs whine that Greece should be kicked out of the eurozone, nothing is actually being done and the problem spreads.

President of the European Council, van Rompuy, had this to say about the crisis:
“The sun is  rising
sleeping yet in Europe
still the same sun.” 

So  we can all rest easy in our beds and not worry that the EU has also demanded we raise our contribution to their budget by another £450m.  In perverse double-speak EU Budget Commissioner Janusz Lewandowski said:

the huge spending increase is needed to allow Brussels to help aid the economic recovery.

The social and financial consequences of international socialism and wealth redestribution has never been so exposed for what it is: as an unworkable and wicked ideology.

Calling England

Sovereign Debt Implosion

Just a thought

If Brown stands down after losing the election there'll be an election in Kirkaldy.


Will it be a bye-bye election?

Just a thought

Food For Thought

Alex Salmond has said that, in the event of a hung UK Parliament, he will consider dropping the current ban on SNP MPs voting on England-only issues. It seems Nick Clegg isn't the only one relishing the thought of pulling the anti-democratic strings of "a balanced Parliament". Last October Salmond said:

“There’s a vast, overwhelming majority of people in Scotland, regardless of political preference, who rather like the idea of the Westminster parliament being hung by a Scottish rope."

However, the cavalry is racing towards us in their usual, last-minute dash: in an attempt to placate the English, the Conservatives have pledged to introduce a policy of “English votes for English laws” if they form the next UK government in an attempt to answer the West Lothian question. Last night they indicated that they would not countenance any formal arrangement with the SNP which would see Nationalist MPs voting on Enland-only matters.

The only satisfactory conclusion to this mess of devolution is for England to have her own Parliament but, as I've said before, all it will do is cement the break-up of the UK and deliver us, weakened, into the hands of the EU.  Mind you, I did have a thought.  Since it was the UK which signed up to the EU and the UK would no longer exist if Scotland was fully independent, wouldn't that mean that all existing treaties between the UK and the EU would be null and void?   How can you have treaties between two parties, one of whom no longer exists?  And how would the constitutional position of HM the Queen be affected?  Would she still be Head of State and Queen of Scotland?  There are so many constitutional anomalies to make it a political nightmare yet at the same time it seems an incredibly simple solution to the EU problem.  I must be missing something.
Calling England

Food For Thought

Raising The Dead

The near-bankrupt Labour Party is turning to a Hollywood director in an effort to brainwash  staunch the flow of voters to the LibDems and the Others.  Stephen Hopkins, director of Kiefer Sutherland's 24, is behind Wednesday evening's election broadcast.

"It [the ad] is a piece of drama, slightly sinister, fairytale-ish ... [it] peers into an imaginary future, assessing the impact of Tory policy pledges. It features actors playing three families and envisions the impact of Tory plans around child trust funds and child tax credits."

Sounds like gripping viewing.  I wonder what Hopkins would make of an election broadcast based on present-day truths rather than the fevered imaginings of a desperate, dying Party: our tanked economy; our sham parliamentary democracy; the pillage of the public purse by 300+ MPs; the warmongering and subsequent betrayal of our Armed Forces vis-a-vis procurement policies; the diktat by Think Tanks and quangos; 24-hr surveillance; the criminalising of the law-abiding majority; the politicisation of the Police Force;  the posturing on the world stage; the chaos in the classrooms; the failing infrastructure; the 3,600 new offences created since 1997; the censorship of free speech;  bans, bans and more bans  ...  On and on and on.  I know which scenario has me clutching a cushion and hiding behind the sofa.
Calling England

Raising The Dead

Scotland v BBC

Today the SNP will lodge papers with the Court of Session in Edinburgh. The party will challenge the decision of BBC executives to exclude it from the debate and the BBC Trust's rejection of it's appeal. It will demand that Mr Salmond is included in Thursday's debate on the economy or that a fourth debate, involving the First Minister, Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg be held prior to 6 May and broadcast UK-wide.

If the BBC and three main UK parties refuse, the SNP will demand Thursday's debate be scrapped.

The result may not be known until Wednesday or Thursday morning.

The SNP raised over £50,000 in a day and a half to help with the legal costs. A tremendous achievement for what many, south of the border, consider is a 'small' political party.

Support has come from far and wide; party members and non-members; even from those who don't vote SNP - but support the principle that the people of Scotland are not second-class citizens as the BBC would lead us to believe.

Professional Scottish journalists, such as Joan MacAlpine and Alex Massie, are fully behind the SNP's action and surprisingly so is Magnus Linklater in the Times. Magnus supports the union but he understand a devolved Scotland and its politics.

Has the BBC been impartial in its treatment of Scottish voters? Has it recognised the need to represent the whole of the UK rather than just one part of it? Does it, in short, understand Britain?

To all of which, the answer is almost certainly —- no.

The action shows that we will no longer be silenced by insults and put-downs from unionist politicians and organisations. At last we're prepared to put our money where our mouths are and challenge an organisation which receives its fair share of funding from us, but returns so little and often grudgingly.

The result of the court case will tell Scotland where she stands with regard to her position within Britain's public service broadcasting organisation.

The SNP is not funded by all the UK, it is funded by Scotland's people because it only represents them. It cannot attract the vast sums unionist parties do, but money doesn't buy everything. It doesn't buy principle (although it's handy to buy lawyers) and it certainly doesn't buy democracy.

Good luck Scotland.

Scotland v BBC

New Lib Dem Poster ;-)

New Lib Dem Poster ;-)

New Labour special democracy button

Do you want to be a member of the European Union?

Cast your vote here:

https://sites.google.com/site/votepetershields/peter-s-homepage/voting

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New Labour special democracy button

Think big, vote small: Vote the bums out!

Common sense, as usual, from Pat Condell:



Cross-posted

Think big, vote small: Vote the bums out!

Cable cracked by Sopel

All of Clegg's horses and all of Clegg's men couldn't put Cable together again!



Watch Saint Vince try to argue that it is OK for a political party to keep two and a half million pounds of stolen money.

from the Red Rag.

Cable cracked by Sopel

EU policy cheat sheet: UKIP -v- Lib/Lab/Con

With Saint Clegg's rise in the polls, many people might have forgotten just how wedded the three 'mainstream' parties are to the EU.

Be in no doubt - a vote for the LibDems is a vote for further EU integration, and then some.

. Labour Conservatives Lib Dems UKIP . EU Referendum? On the Euro On further transfers of power to the EU On UK membership of EU and the euro On UK membership . Joining the euro? Mixed messages Never Yes No . Crime and policing? Status quo No new EU powers, opt out More integration No integration . European public prosecutor? Against Against Mixed messages Against . Immigration and asylum Partly in favour of more EU integration Against more integration and asylum burden-sharing More integration, n favour of asylum burden sharing 5-year immigration freeze . EU Defence Possibly more cooperation Against - no EU defence procurement EU defence procurement No EU involvement in defence . EU Foreign policy Keep EU diplomatic service separate from national issues Keep EU diplomatic service separate from national issues Keep EU diplomatic service separate from national issues Return to UK diplomatic service . Reform of the EU budget Vague CAP reform promise, maintain UK rebate Vague CAP reform promise, maintain UK rebate Vague reform promise, missed messages on CAP and UK rebate Reform (if we’re still in the EU) . EU financial supervisors In favour with reservations Against if transferring powers In favour with reservations Against . EU employment policy Status quo Opting out of parts “most damaging” to economy Status quo Opting out (if we’re still in the EU) . Common Fisheries Policy Fundamental reform Fundamental reform No mention in manifesto Withdraw . Environmental policy Support EU action, and current targets Support EU action, and current targets Support EU action, and current targets UK action

Source of Lib/Lab/Con info: Open Europe (PDF)

Cross-posted

EU policy cheat sheet: UKIP -v- Lib/Lab/Con

Rejoice! Iceland's Ash Chokes EU Machine

The volcanic ash from Iceland that's shut down most of Europe's airports is having an unexpectedly beneficial side-effect, namely, it's causing a headache for the parasites in the EU. According to the blog of Ziga Turk:

Each morning, hundreds of planes are landing in Brussels airlifting the politicians, civil servants, researchers, businessmen to meetings in the capital. Since mid last week this airlift came to a standstill. Brussels Airport has been closed and access to Brussels limited to those that can take a train or car. While this could just work for the original EU6, the train is not an option for the EU27.

You'd have thought that such an important institution, full of such clever people, would be able to use modern technology to allow people to communicate in a situation such as this - MSN, Skype, webconferencing, chat, etc, but no:

None of that is possible with the officials in the Commission, Council or the Parliament. The first thing I noticed when moving into my office in Justus Lipsius was how well it was firewalled. Skype, of course, did not work. Even secure web pages do not work, because any decent browser would complain that the firewalls are trying to cheat with certificates. The culture of on-line collaboration with the officials is therefore non existent.

They're not bothered about communicating with each other but they're obsessed with keeping tabs on our phone and internet communications.

Pity the whole lot of them can't be buried under a pile of ash and put out of action for good.

Rejoice! Iceland's Ash Chokes EU Machine

Cameron on China

From The Red Rag

Cameron on China

Debate Poll Results

The poll was open for just under an hour.

Q. Who Won Tonights Debate?

A.
David Cameron  - 71%
Nick Clegg - 29%
Gordon Brown - 0%

Total Responses - 18

Comments from the poll:

1. No-one they are all as bad as each other falling over themselves to tell us how they'll spend our cash without asking us whether we agree or not.

2. But God help us if that is the best of it. Cameron "won" it for me, but Clegg, allowed by Cameron to get away with some ridiculous assertions, will do so in the eyes of most people who now are not interested in politics. Tonight will not have helped
 
3. Cameron too careful.
Clegg was anti-tory.
Brown looked foolish.



My personal feeling was that Cameron just edged it; he was out in front for a bit then Brown turned on the Tory Cuts line and dragged Cameron into a bit of a slog which let Nick Clegg do well in the late questions.  Brown came over pretty bad, but I have never been a fan.  The big winner on the night was Clegg purely for getting the airtime and the big loser was Brown.

It was not as sterile as I had anticipated, and it might actually shift the polls - it definitely will if Brown is this bad in either or both of the future debates.

Cross-Posted

Debate Poll Results

Debate Poll

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Who Won Tonight's Debate?

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Debate Poll

Albion Alliance Newsletter

The Albion Alliance takes the campaign to the doorsteps.



Well Gordon Brown has finally gone to see the Queen, Parliament has been prorogued and the MP's are no more.

Many have stood down and will disappear like the mist, others will be standing again along with a host of new candidates all looking for your vote in this all important General Election to be held alongside the local authority elections on the 6th May 2010.

The Albion Alliance has decided to now move the campaign into the constituencies along with the candidates, and take the fight for a referendum onto the doorstep.

Has your candidate signed The Albion Alliance pledge yet? If not, we have now produced a printable PDF file that you can present them with at the doorstep when they come canvassing for your vote.

Feel free to tell them that you will only be voting for a candidate who will represent your desire for a democratic vote on the the future of the UK and our relationship with the EU. Feel free to tell them bluntly that if they are not prepared to sign up to

The Albion Alliance campaign, you won't be prepared to vote for them.

If they tell you they have already signed, ask them to sign again as you don't have time to check the database whilst you are on the doorstep, use the PDF file to keep a few printed copies handy by the door. (whether they sign once or twice is irrelevant, so long as they do sign up).

You can download and save the PDF file here http://downloads.albionalliance.org.uk/pledge_form_2010.pdf

In fact, why not print lots of copies of the PDF Albion Alliance pledge and give them out to your neighbours, friends, work colleagues, in the local, in the gym, when you go shopping. The more people who know about The Albion Alliance the better the campaign will work.

Lets make every candidate wonder every time they knock on a door looking for a vote, will I be asked about the EU? will I be asked to sign this pledge. This time, don't let them talk at you, this time, make them listen to you.



NO PLEDGE, NO VOTE.


Good luck and our best wishes

The Albion Alliance team.

Albion Alliance Newsletter

ALL UK LEGISLATION PASSED SINCE 2000 IS NULL AND VOID

UPDATE: BRITAIN FACES A COLOSSAL CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS
Now that the deception over the Hereditary Peers’ Letters Patent has been placed decisively in the public domain [see below] THE CRISIS CAN NO LONGER BE GLOSSED OVER AND IGNORED.

http://worldreports.org/news/282_all_uk_legislation_passed_since_2000_is_null_and_void
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ALL UK LEGISLATION PASSED SINCE 2000 IS NULL AND VOID

Gordon Brown and the Mister Men!

Well I just couldn't resist. Labour make it so easy to mock them, with just a few subtle (as a sledge hammer) changes, the Red Rag production of A Future fair for all - animated manifesto film is now far more accurate than the one Labour released this morning. See how many changes you can spot!

As Bevanite (Posh Labour Totty) Ellie urged this morning. Post it everywhere!

Gordon Brown and the Mister Men!

World Silver And Gold Fraud Exposed! Andrew Maguire Exposes JP Morgan & CFTC

Massive fraud!

World Silver And Gold Fraud Exposed! Andrew Maguire Exposes JP Morgan & CFTC

UPDATE:

(Original Youtube video removed.)

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/bombshell-whistle-blower-comes-forward-with-solid-proof-the-price-of-gold-and-silver-is-being-manipulated-by-major-financial-institutions

and

http://market-ticker.denninger.net/archives/2153-Is-The-Metals-Market-A-Ponzi-Scheme.html

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World Silver And Gold Fraud Exposed! Andrew Maguire Exposes JP Morgan & CFTC

GORDON BROWN IS HECKLED - TWICE!

STORY FROM SKY NEWS

GORDON BROWN IS HECKLED - TWICE!

Questions for general election candidates

With the general election campaign underway, here are some ideas for questions to ask candidates about Common Purpose.

Questions for general election candidates